199b0046-79a3-4e74-8152-17f10c376671 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-19T14:59:48 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator Seasonal agricultural calendars presenting activities per month for farmers in Malawi, April-May 2019 2022-03-22 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/199b0046-79a3-4e74-8152-17f10c376671 10.5285/199b0046-79a3-4e74-8152-17f10c376671 doi: Mittal, N., Whitfield, S. (2022). Seasonal agricultural calendars presenting activities per month for farmers in Malawi, April-May 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/199b0046-79a3-4e74-8152-17f10c376671 The dataset provides transcripts from focus groups in Salima, Mangochi and Zomba (Malawi). The focus groups' discussions focused on important monthly agricultural activities in association with the climate services and extreme weather events. This outlined how climatic factors affected agricultural decision-making. The data were produced as part of NERC Program Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR). Grant reference - Improving Preparedness to Agro-Climatic Extremes in Malawi (IPACE-Malawi). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/199b0046-79a3-4e74-8152-17f10c376671 Mittal, N. University of Leeds N.Mittal@leeds.ac.uk author Whitfield, S. University of Leeds s.whitfield@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3040-778X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Whitfield, S. University of Leeds s.whitfield@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3040-778X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian University of Leeds s.whitfield@leeds.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher weather ecosystem services agriculture GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Agriculture Africa Agro-climate indices Maize Farmers Decision making extreme weather otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Mittal, N., Whitfield, S. (2022). Seasonal agricultural calendars presenting activities per month for farmers in Malawi, April-May 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/199b0046-79a3-4e74-8152-17f10c376671 textTable 1000 English utf8 environment 2019-04-01 2019-05-31 33.877 35.722 -15.512 -13.726 docx NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/199b0046-79a3-4e74-8152-17f10c376671 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/199b0046-79a3-4e74-8152-17f10c376671.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Between April and May 2019 15 focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted across five Extension Planning Areas (EPAs); 10 FGDs with farmers and 5 FGDs with Agricultural Extension Development Officers (AEDOs). The farmers involved in the FGD were selected by the AEDOs and included both male and female farmers (and amongst which one or more than one was the lead farmer i.e., farmer representative). In total, 70 female farmers and 48 male farmers, and 21 AEDOs participated in the FGDs. The age of male farmer and female farmer participants ranged from 28–58 to 20–54, respectively. As part of the FGDs these seasonal calendars were used to guide the discussion. The FGDs were conducted in the local language Chichewa, facilitated by a local research assistant who audio recorded, translated and transcribed the discussions.